Econ 6808: Introduction to Quantitative Analysis
Lecture notes available online:
I. An Introduction to the Mathmatica Software
A Brief Tour of Mathematica
A Quick Introduction to Mathematica
for Windows
II. Economic Applications of Constrained Optimization
Minimization and Maximization
Consumer Theory in a Nutshell
An absolute value estimator compared
to an ols estimator A simple maxlik
problem
A simple linear programming
problem - Wilbur skiis and bowls
III. Economic Curvature
IV. Economic Applications of Duality Theory
From the production function
to the cost function, including a proof of Shepard's lemma
From the cost function
to the production function
Hicksian Demand Functions, Expenditure
Functions and Shephard's Lemma
The profit function and
Hotelling's lemma
Compensating Variation: The
Basics
Envelope Theorem: Shephard's
Lemma, Hotelling's Lemma, etc
IV. Integration: An Introduction and Some Simple Economic Applications
Lecture 1: Introduction to
integration with some simple economic examples
Lecture 3: Applications of
integration: present value of streams of benefits and costs
Lecture 4: Now briefly consider
multiple integrals
lectures on integration: applications to statistics
Continuous random variables
and probability
Joint density functions,
marginal density functions, and conditional density functions
lectures on game theory
Game theory
(they need work)
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